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CARTRIDGE BELT.

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LOUIS SANDERS, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

CARTRIDGE-BELT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 621,148, dated March14, 1899.

Application tiled December 30, 1898. Serial No. 700,733. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS SANDERS, of the city of New York, borough ofBrooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented anew and Improved Cartridge- Belt, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a clamp especially adapted toform a cartridgereceiving loop in a cartridge-belt, the clamp being soconstructed that after it has once been placed in position it cannot bedisplaced under ordinary usage.

Another object of the invention is to provide a clamp for formingpockets in the extension-leaves of cartridge-belts and that may beutilized to increase or to decrease the diameter of a cartridge pocketoriginally formed in a belt, the clamp being substituted for theseparating or divisional devices originally employed, the clamp beingalso capable of use as an accessory to the original separating ordivisional devices.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the iigures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a portion of the improvedcartridge-belt, a part thereof being in vertical section, the sectionbeing on the line 1 1 of Fig. 2. Fig. Zisaplan view of the belt shown inFig. 1, sundry of the pockets being empty and the others provided withcartridges. Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1; andFig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the clamp employed, the clampbeing drawn on a larger scale than shown in the other views; and Fig. 5is a perspective view of a modiiied form of clamp employed in connectionwith the loop-leaves of cartridge-belts.

A represents a belt, and B loop-leaves projected from the belt, beingeither integral with the belt or attached thereto. These loop-leaves maybe formed into one or more pockets C for the reception of cartridges Eor other articles, which is accomplished by the application of one ormore clamps D to the said loop-leaves. The clamps are preferablyconstructed of spring metal and include two opposing and properly-spacedside members 10, connected at the top and at the bottoni by end members1l, and when the clamp is applied to a loop-leaf indentations 12 aremade in the said top and bottom members in order to effect a rm bindingengagement between the top and bottom of the clamp and the correspondingedges of the loop-leaf to which the clamp is applied. The constructionof the clamp is completed by the formation of inwardly-extending spurs13, produced in the side members 10. These spurs are preferably struckout from the material of the clamp, but may be attached thereto, ifdesired, and the preferred arrangement of the spurs is such that thespurs of one side member will intervene those upon the opposing sidemember, as shown in Fig. 4.

When a clamp is to be applied to a loopleaf, its side members areusually sprung outward, as illustrated in dotted lines at D' in Fig. 4,and after the clamp is in place the spurs are upset by applying pressureto the outer surfaces of the side members of the clamp in any approvedmanner. A

When the clamp is applied to the loop-leaf of a belt-for example, asabove set forthit is firmly anchored or secured in position, and it isevident that the clamp may be adjusted at any desired point upon thebelt prior to upsetting the spurs or causing them to engage with t-hemembers of a leaf. The improvement provides a simple and economic deviceespecially adapted to form pockets in the loop-leaves of military orcartridge belts or for analogous purposes.

In Fig. 5 I have illustrated a modified form of the clamp' in which Iemploy a single strip 14, the said strip being providedwith spurs 15,that extend from opposite sides, preferably in a horizontal direction.rIhese spurs 15 maybe attached to the strip 14, or they may be struckout from the strip, as in practice may be found most desirable.

In the application of the modified form of clamp the strip 14 isintroduced between the members of a loop-leaf, and pressure is broughtto bear simultaneously upon opposite sides of the loop-leaf where theclamp is applied to effect an entrance of the spurs into IOO the membersof the loop-leaf and likewise a clamping engagement between the spursand the outside faces of said loop-leaves.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patentl. A clamp for belt-leaves comprising the box-loopfitted to embrace the belt-leaf and having opposite connected armsarranged to be outwardly bowed, and spurs or prongs arranged to beforced through the belt-leaf when the arms of the box-loop are readjusted to clamp the belt-leaf, substantially as set forth.

2. A clamp for belt-leaves consisting of the box-loop embracing thebelt-leaves and having its opposite side arms connected at their endsand arranged to be bowed outwardly between the said ends, and havingsuch arms provided withinwardly-projectedspursorprongs, such spurs orprongs being arranged at comparatively considerable distances from theends of the loop whereby they will not engage the belt-leaf when theclamp has its arms outwardly bowed, thereby permitting the applicationof the pronged box-loop to the beltleaf, substantially as set forth.

3. A belt having loop-leaves and provided with a clamp by which todivide said leaf into pockets, such clamp consisting of a plate providedwith spurs or prongs whereby it can be positively locked to thebelt-leaf in any position desired, substantially as set forth.

LOUIS SANDERS.

Witnesses:

EVERARD BOLTON MARSHALL, ALFRED LURcoTT.

